The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-02-11
NO. D.

and her antagonists, ana osIWeen =.
other nations that are flying at each oeIler
throats, and comman1 peace and disoSn4
armies and harness for the plcw the war
horses now b sing hitched to ammunition
wagons or saddle1 for cavalry charge
That time must come, or through the IN
creased facility for shooting men and blow
ing up cities and whelming hosts 70
instant death, so that we can kill regi-
ment easier than we could once
kill o company, and kill q brigade
easier than we could once kill regiment,
the patent Offices OF the world more busy
than ever in recognizing the engnery OF
destruction, the human race Will afIeF
awhile go fighting with one arm, and hoo-
bling with one foot and stumbling along
with one eye, and some l. geniOus ibYentorS
inspired Of the archangel of all mlschieE,
will contrive a mach ne that Will borS
! hole to the earth's center, and scme des~
ne ate nation will throw into that hole
enonoh dynamite to blow this hulk of
planet into fragments, dropping like me-
teoric stones on SURROUNDING sVe4Aaf naOf-
tations.
B1lt this shall not be, for whatever else l
let go I hang on to my Bible, Wh en- IeLs
me that the blacksmith's shop suail yee
come to its grandest use, when the " lOI
and the hus bandmau shall enter It side W
sile, and the soldier shall throw into us
bank of fires his sword, and the farmer
shall pick it up a plowshare, and the
straightest spear shall be bent into crook
at each end and then cut in two, AMI what
was one spear shall be two pruning forks.
Down with Moloch AMI up with Christi
Let no more war horses eat out of the
manger where Jesus was born.
PeaceI Forever roll of the SKY the black
pillars of smoke from the Marengos and
Salamancas and Borodiuos and dams and
Gettysburgs of earthl AMI right after
them VOll into the heavens the peaceful
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and asvIums .~ud churches, and capitals Of
Christian nations. and the sunlight
strikes through these vapors they Will
write in letters of jet and e'oll ali over the
sky from horizon to zenith: ~. ory 70 Ood
in the highest, and On earth peace, SOou WIN WIN
toward p' Then let all the men-CI-war
fire a broadside and all the forts thuuCeF
forth a resOunding volley, AMI the earth be-
girled with the cannonade over the final
victory of the truth.
While thinking of these things I looked
from my window and the wind was vio-
lently blowing. And l saw from many
chmueys the smoke tossed in the air and
whirled in great velocity, volume after
volume fold after fold, and carried on the
&wISt wind were the great pillars OF
smoke And helped by Solomon in the
t KIT saw the speed Of the church symbol
il ID Do you realize the momentum the
church Of God is urfdsr1 Why, the smoke
ington when the wind is blowing sixty
miles the hour Is slow as compared with
tue celebrity of good influences.
For ffty-nine centuries the devil rad 10
his own way among the nations. NeaEiy
all the missionary movements have been
started within the century aud see what
one century has done to recover the world
from fTty-nine centuries of devastation.
What great revivalsl What mighty
churches What saved milhOnsl What
advancing civilization In all the United
| S atss, Great Britain, France, Ireland,
Germany, Italy, full freedom TO worship
/ G5d according TO conscience Along the
coasts of China, Japan and Africa the bat
/ teries are plant ID which are TO take all
| tn ase empires for God and civilization
From III ; RUNS of Babylon and Assyrla
and NIneveh and the valleys of the Nile
eonhrmatiou5 have been eXhume proving
to all fair-minded men that the Bible is the
truest book ever W.T. item. The mytholo-
as Of Egypt were found to have EN- Jodied
in them the knowledge If N ms expulsion
from Paradise, and the sacrifice of great
emancipator. Moses 7unt Of the croa-
tion, corroborated by the banner of geolO-
gists; the Oldest profaue writers like
Hiromus, Helanicus AMI BerOsus, confirm
ing the Bible account Of ancient iOnge ity;
Tacitus and Piiny confirming the Blblo nc
counts of destroyed SOIOm and GJmOrrah;
Tacitus and PorphJ ~ te ling the saIne
story Of Christ as Matthew and Luxe told:
Macrobius telling of the massacre of chill
dren in Bethlehem, and Phlegon sketchlng
the darkness at the cruCihXion.
II Is demonstrated % all honest men that
Il is dot 80 certain that William Cullen
Bryant wrote Tbanatopsis or Longfellow
wrote Hawatha as that God by the hand
of prophet and apostle wrote the Bible All
the wise men in science and Law and mod
icine and literature and merchandise are
TTs.wre 5waf haf ian
and soon there VIII be no people who dis
believs in IL, except those conspicuous
for lack Of brain or men with two families
who do not Iike the B,0le because it re-
Dukes their swinish pr6PeEslties.
The time is Fastening when there will be
no inhdels left except lbertines and har-
lots and murderers. Millions Of Christians
where once there were thousands, and
thousands where once there were hun~
dreds. What bright evening this, the
evening of the nineteenth century, and
the twentieth century, which will dawn in
thirteen years from now, will, in my opin-
ion, bring universal victory for Christ and
the church, that now is marching with
step double quick or, II you prefer the
hgure of the text, is being swept on in the
mighty gales of blessing, imposing and
grand and majestic and swift like pillars
Of smoke.
Oh, come into the church through Christ
Tne dOOr, Jn9 QOOF more glorious IMAM bA@s
of the Temple of Hercules, which had Two
pillars, and one was gold and the other
emerald Come in to-day Come in and
be one Of the eternal viCtOrsl The world
you leave beh nj is a poor world, ana it
will burn and pass off like pillars Of smoke.
Whether the final conlagration will start
in the coal mines OF Pennsylvania, which,
IN some places, have for many years been
burning and eating into the heart Of the
mountains; or whether il shan begin near
the California geysers, or whether from
out Of the furnaces Of Cotopaxi and Vesu-
vus and Stromb1li, 10 shall burst forth
upon the astonished nations.
make no prophecy, but all gelogists tell
US that we stand on the lid OF a world the
heart Of which is a raging, roaring, awfu,
fame, and some day GO1 will let the red
monsters out OF the r Imprisonment Of cent
uries, and New York on fire in 1875, and
Charleston on fire in 1868. and Chicago on
fire in 1871, an Boston on fire in 1s72 we're
only like one spark from a biacltsm this
forge as compared with that last universal
blaze, which will be seen IN other worlds
But gradually th3 a 3 VII lessen and
the world will b com great living coal,
and that will take an ashen hue, an then
our ruineI planet will begin 70 smoke,
and the mountains viii smoke,
and ths valleys will smoke, and
the Islands will smoke, and the
seas vii smoke, and the cities will smoke,
an the Ave continents will be i've pillars
OF smOks. But the black vapOrs will begin
to lessen in light and density, and then
will becoms hardly visible 20 those who
look upon it from the sky galleries, and
after awhile from just one point there will
curl up a thin solitary vapor, and then even
that will vanish, and there will bG nothing
left except the charrod ruins Of a burned
out world, the corpse Of a dead star, the